TO V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written on September 13, 1915Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Sörenberg to Geneva.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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Iwas away on business for a few days (and only for that
period did I ask that everything should be sent to Geneva;
now please sendeverythingagain—including the booklet—
to Sörenberg).

Onmy arrival I found your letter about Rolland’s
articles.[1]I am terribly worried about your not having received
them. I sent them to youby letter posttwo weeks ago, if
not more. I have not had any cases before this of
unregistered letters being lost in Switzerland. Could there be some
mistake? Perhaps someone has received these articles in
yourabsence? Write about this, please. If the answer is that
there was not, and could not have been any mistake, and
if you do not have the articles, I will naturally do
everything possible to get them for you (if I have lost them).
I shall either buy this issue, or (if it has been sold out) get
it from the library andmake a complete copy for you. I am
very sorry, and please write to me as soon as possible how
matters stand. If you require a copy,how soon? Writefrankly.

Regards,Yours,Lenin

Forsome reason I have stopped receivingZhizn. Is there
no exchange? Would you make an inquiry? And what aboutVperyod[2]? What news is there of the O.C.
miscellany[3]and the Bund publications?Kommunist No. 1–2 has
appeared.[4]This is a fact.

[1]Areference to Romain Holland’s articles inJournal de
Genèvefrom August to October 1914. The French Government held
up the re-issue of these articles, and they were published only
in 1915 in the collection, Romain Rolland,Au-dessus de la mêlée.
Paris. Paul Ollendorff; Neuchâtel, Attinger Frères, 1915.

[2]Vperyod(Forward)—a periodical of theVperyodgroup, published
in Geneva from August 25,1915 (No. 1) to February 1,1917 (No. 6).
Among those who took part in the publication were A. V.
Lunacharsky (A. Voinov), P. I. Lebedev (V. Polyansky), and
D. Z. Manuilsky (I. Bezrabotny).

[3]Areference to the miscellanyThe International and the WarNo. 1, issued by the Secretariat Abroad of the Organising
Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1915.

[4]ThemagazineKommunistwas founded by Lenin and published
by the editorial board ofSotsial-Demokratjointly with G. L.
Pyatakov and Yevgenia Bosch, who financed the publication. N. I.
Bukharin was also on the editorial board. Only one (double) issue
appeared. It carried Lenin’s articles “The Collapse of the Second
International”, “The Voice of an Honest French Socialist”, and
“Imperialism and Socialism in Italy”.

Leninexpected to turn the magazine into an organ of the
Left-wing Social-Democrats, but serious differences soon developed
between theSotsial-DemokratEditorial Board and Bukharin,
Pyatakov and Bosch, which were aggravated after the appearance
of the first issue.